Allowance

Quick meaning: Allowance is a noun meaning Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.

Meaning

Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.

More Meanings

1. Acknowledgment.
2. An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.
3. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
4. (commerce) A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country.
5. (horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
6. (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
7. (obsolete) Approval; approbation.

Example Sentences

to make allowance for his naivety

her meagre allowance of food or drink

The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others.

Being a volunteer is unpaid, but we get accommodation and a living allowance of 100 euros a week.

Word Forms

• allowances
• allowaunce
• allowancing
• allowanced

Synonyms for allowance

Depending on context, synonyms include authorization, permission, sanction, tolerance, authority, clearance.

Antonyms for allowance

Common opposites include penalty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adjustment, tolerance, margin, leeway, admission, acceptance.

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